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    November 2005
CLEAR PURPLE?
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 8, 2005 6:03 PM
Where can I get clear purple/grape for my Ent-A warp engines?  DLM......Mr Mathys are you out there?
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    May 2004
  • From: Oregon
Posted by maxx1969 on Thursday, December 8, 2005 6:10 PM
Have you tried using ink mixed into a clearcoat? I've gotten that to work for some of the non standard clear colors.
~Matt T Meyer
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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 8, 2005 8:16 PM
I usually mix my own from the following colors:
Clear Red
Clear Blue
Clear

Key, here is the CLEAR as otherwise you end up with a very dark mix.

Alternatively you could try to multiple THIN(thinned clear colors) layers of clear red and clear blue.
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    September 2005
  • From: Chehalis, WA
Posted by Fish-Head Aric on Friday, December 9, 2005 1:45 PM

I have found two variations of clear paint I am working with on my Polar Lights 1/1000 TOS Enterprise.  At Michael's Village Crafts, in the section for paints to use on glass, there were both a translucent and transparent variation of paints for use to immitate stained and glazed glass.  You can probably find similar stuff at other large craft supply stores.

I got a sampling kit with 6 colors in it, for the translucent, because I want a diffused, not so clear glowing warp engine.  I painted the insides of the warp nacelle domes orange.  There are two domes, one within another, both I painted.  I mounted a tiny light behind the dome to see how the glow would come out.  It worked very well.  I'll take some digital pics and show them in the next day or so.

~Aric Fisher aric_001@hotmail.com
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 9, 2005 5:20 PM

Very good suggestions.  I will be out and about this weekend and will explore some of the craft shops.

I have some tamiya clears in my stock pile already so I'll try mixing the clear into the red and blue mix as well. Hopefully I'll get better results.

I went to Michaels Craft last night and found some cellophane wrapping paper in the correct color. If worse comes to worse I'll rig it up inside the nacelle and back it with some reflective silver something.

I remember when modeling use to be so simple.....

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    October 2005
  • From: Garland, TX
Posted by tabascojunkie on Monday, December 26, 2005 2:42 AM
Reaper Miniatures has a clear purple in their Master Series paint line.
Bruce
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    December 2002
  • From: Third rock from the sun.
Posted by Woody on Monday, December 26, 2005 2:56 PM
My understanding is that the studio model used machinist dye.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:36 PM
I actually just finished watching the motion picture and the nacelles were blue, did they decide to change the color when they remastered it?
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